Tuesday 22 April 2008

Babysitter 'was wrongly jailed' (ITV News)

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A babysitter jailed for murdering her neighbour's toddler is the victim of a "serious miscarriage of justice", a court has heard.
Suzanne Holdsworth, now 37, was jailed in 2005 for repeatedly banging two-year-old Kyle Fisher's head against a wooden banister at her home in Millpool Close, Hartlepool in August 2004.
At the time, Teesside Crown Court had heard that the impact on the child's head was similar to being thrown from a car at 60mph.
The mother-of-two was present in the dock of the Court of Appeal in London as Henry Blaxland QC presented her case before three judges at the start of proceedings expected to last four days.
Holdsworth was accused of having snapped when minding Kyle, who lived at nearby Troutpool Close, while the child's 19-year-old single mother was having a night out.
She consistently denied injuring the child and claimed he had suffered a fit as they sat watching television, but a jury found her guilty of murder and she was jailed for life and told she must serve at least ten years before applying for release on parole.
Mr Blaxland told Lord Justice Toulson, Mr Justice Aikens and Judge Michael Baker QC, that the doctors who gave evidence at trial "got it wrong" and "collectively failed to diagnose" that the child had a "highly unusual brain", with abnormalities that predisposed him to epilepsy.
He said fresh evidence "establishes that there is a reasonable possibility that the child suffered a prolonged epileptic seizure just before exhibiting signs of depressed central nervous system function, which played a critical role in the ultimately fatal swelling of the child's brain".

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